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The Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Ohio Department of Transportation are partnering together to announce a traffic safety initiative using ODOT digital message boards visible above highways across the state.
One of the digital message boards will be posted on Ohio 4, north of Bucyrus, from July 2 – 16. The boards will rotate between the year-to-date number of traffic deaths of 2015 and traffic safety messaging, such as Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.
As of the last week of June, Ohio has recorded 76 more traffic deaths in 2015 than the same time period a year ago. By utilizing the 130 permanent digital message boards across the state, ODOT and OSHP hope to change driver behavior and reverse this upward trend.